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No. 223,493. Patented Jan. 13, I880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD A. EVANS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,493, dated January 13, 1880.

Application filed October 4, 1879. i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD A. EVANS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Advertising-Signs, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement consists in the combination, with a sign composed of a metallic frame covered with woven or reticulated material, of rings or hands attached to said frame and serving to support the sign upon a staff, pole, or equivalent support, and a Vane or rudder composed of solid or imperforate material extending at an angle to said sign.

The accompanying drawing represents a perspective View of a sign embodying my improvement.

A designates the sign proper, upon which the advertising matter is to he placed, and which is composed of any open or perforated material. As here represented, the said sign is composed of a rectangular metallic frame, a, covered with woven or reticulated material, such as a netting of ropes or twine, or wiregauze cloth, andthis construction is very advantageous because of its lightness.

The letters composing advertising matter may he cut from cloth or other material, and sewed or otherwise fastened upon the sign.

This sign is intended to be supported on a pole or staff, B, so as to be turned or oscillated thereon but in lieu of the staff or pole a tightly-stretched rope might be used.

I-have represented rings or bands I) extending from the metallic frame a, and fitting loosely on the staff or pole.

In order to keep the sign at all times facing the direction of the wind, I have represented a vane, 0, extending at an angle to said sign, and shown as composed of solid or imperforate material. The vane, having more surface than the sign, oifers so much more resistance to the wind that it will, when arranged at a right angle to said sign, keep the latter facing the wind, and as it turns or oscillates with every change in the direction of the wind, a cheap and attractive means of advertising is furnished.

The vane 0 might also be covered with advertisin g matter, and it might, if desirable, be made of two thicknesses of transparent material and have a light placed between them.

An arrow or index, D, may also extend from the sign to indicate the direction of the wind.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a sign composed of a metallic frame covered with woven or reticulated material, of rings or bands attached to said frame, and serving to support the sign upon a staff, pole, or equivalent support, so as to admit of its turning or oscillating thereon,

and a vane composed of solid or impcrforate material extending at anangle to said sign,

substantially as specified.

EDWARD A. EVANS.

Witnesses CHANDLER HALL, T. J. KEANE. 

